It's always difficult to watch someone you love die.

People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.

when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.

I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.

People often belittle the place where they were born.

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.